Buying a Motorcycle?

So today for about half a second I considered buying a motorcycle.

Maybe it was less than half a second.

But I understood a little more about why people ride motorcyles, other than the danger and those people who ride without helments, and the ones who drive too fast and weave in and out of traffic...

Okay, so maybe I understood those people who buy convertibles.

Because yesterday I rode home with ALL my windows down, on the interstate, going 70 miles and hour, with my sunglasses on and my hair "whipping back and forth."

I put on a CD that I recently aquired as a favor from my friend Tam's wedding. I was in a kind of Garden State soundtrack meets Elizabethtown treck on the road meets The Killers (circa 2005) meets butterflies and happiness...

It's a peculiar mix of music, but I love it.

My fave tracks from the mix check em out:
Track 1 - The Ladder by Andrew Belle 
Track 4 - Daylight by Matt & Kim
Track 14 - Beautiful by Phil Wickham
Track 15 - Can't Help Falling in Love by Ingrid Michaelson (sorry for the super-unofficial video link ;)

I highly recommend trying it.  Today, feel free to roll ALL your windows down, put on some good music and mess up your hair.

...see a really great thing can happen when the air conditioning goes out in your car and it's 80 degrees outside ;)

End Result of Hair Whipping...

Wow my Muscles are Sore!

Apparently I use the same muscles to drive my Saturn as I do playing disc golf.

How did I come to this realization?  Well, Kyle, our friend Trevor and I went out disc golfing on Sunday afternoon.

They are professionals. They have lots of discs and even handy carrying cases.  Luckily, I am married to Kyle, so he shared two discs with me.  One was a driver and one was a putter.  Funny.

I'll tell you the truth. I've always been athletic.  People tell me all the time that I look athletic. I secretly think that's their way of saying I have a large frame and justifying the fact that my hair always looks like I just worked out.  But I'm okay with that.

But anyways I may be "athletic," but I don't have hand eye coordination.  Well, I was a catcher in softball because I got to wear protective gear and therefore, didn't flinch. But other than that… my mom would motion "Keep your eye on the ball" a million times and that didn't help me make contact with it.  That's just me.

You can imagine our trip disc golfing.  I got a hole-in-3 once, but Kyle won and my score was +43. That means I took 43 more throws than him to get through the same course.  He's good.

I loved disc golfing.  But apparently you use the same muscles to drive and to disc golf.  Because every time I shift gears I feel the pain ;)

#timetogetintoshapeforthespring

East Texans Run to Brookshires!

Okay, maybe that's a little dramamtic. But I don't think so.

So today was a great day!

When I got to work I found this:

Yes! It's true, yesterday I took my exam to become an official Registered Dietitian!! Praise Jesus (really)!

My hair feels great because of THIS.

And today on my way home I stopped at the local Brookshires and saw this!

If you're not from around here and maybe your Brookshire's always looks like that. Good for you. But ours usually looks like what got left on the truck after they made all the other deliveries.

My theory: Fresh (Brookshire's new Whole Food, Central Market-type store) just moved in to Tyler and I think that means we get fresher stuff delivered on the trucks to the rest of East Texas!! I asked the lady at the checkout if my theory was true and she said

"I think it's because many of our vegetables are seasonal. Now that more fruits and vegetables are in season we have a wider selection."

False. She doesn't know. Cinnamon sticks are not seasonal... and we've never had special tongs to pick up fresh cinnamon sticks before. And there's never been quite a selection of fruit!

So if you're in our town and your best excitement is the idea of an IHOP coming to town, maybe, someday (AKA Jill), then run to Brookshire's. But that's just a suggestion from your friendly, Registered Dietitian ;)

See, even a larger selection of sausage than before... can you tell I'm from the South?

Interesting Times before Study Mania

Wonderful weekend...

This week I'll be away studying my head of for my upcoming RD exam.  But in my absence I'll leave you with these... AKA a weeks worth of blog pictures :)

This is what my knee looked like after last week's carpet-burn fall. I'm glad to report that it's healing nicely. I'm sad to say I don't have time to tell the story right now. It's hilarious; and I'll post it someday. No doubt it'll happen again.

I was trying to figure out what shape the scab was in?? Any ideas?

THE planner came in. I started using it last night. I feel an indescribable relief not having to remember everything but being able to simply write it down.

I made Christmas cupcakes due to all the studying. They smelled like Birthday and looked like Christmas. And what more could you need to make you happy?

We got to use our new grill for the first time since we got it... oh about a year ago as a wedding present. 

MOST OF ALL: We went to Fresh! If you haven't heard, Fresh is a new Whole Food, Central Market type grocery store of the Brookshire's chain. This is actually the first one ever, and it opened this week! Here in small town or big town nearby, we don't have much variety in produce. But NOW we do! 

I'm not all about super expensive food just for the fact that it's expensive... but I am all about 15 different types of peppers or 20 kinds of apples to make life happier! 

Wish I had pictures of:

 - Wonderful dinner with friends!

 - Honestly the best (or first) Seafarers game I've ever played.

 - My first Taco Bueno experience.  It was quite comical.

More fun to come soon! My own review and pics of Fresh! and our findings from Big Trash Pickup: Texas Edition.

Remember it's still National Nutrition Month! Try adding color through fruits, vegetables, and whole grains to your meals this month for a healthier you!